2024-2025 INSPIRE Teachers
Aayesha Nangia
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During the 2024-2025 INSPIRE program, Aayesha taught 8th grade Science at Huerta Middle School in Santa Clara Unified School District.
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Ayesha’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on frog defense mechanisms to highlight how certain traits play the role of adaptations for species as they undergo natural selection.
Jaime Vazquez
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During the 2024-2025 INSPIRE program, Jaime taught 10th grade Biology and 12th grad Human Biology at East Palo Alto Academy in the Sequoia Union High School District.
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Jaime’s Education Transfer Plan connects his research on rates of herbivory on the keystone Q. agrifolia oak to fundamental ecological concepts such as energy flows and trophic cascades.
Jesus Rojas
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During the 2024-2025 INSPIRE program, Jesus taught 6th and 8th grade Science.
- Jesus’s Education Transfer Plan connects his research on the growth rate of E. coli in different sugar substrates to the impact of our diets on our microbiomes.
Jose Lopez
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During the 2024-2025 INSPIRE program, Jose taught Physics at San Mateo High School in the San Mateo Union High School District.
- Jose’s Education Transfer Plan connects his research characterizing the BmpC protein which is essential for nucleoside-transfer in Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme disease to how we can apply the physics of optics and electromagnetic radiation to study something so small.
Lia Kim
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During the 2024-2025 INSPIRE program, Lia taught 9th grade Biology at James Logan High School in the New Haven Unified School District.
- Lia’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on the soil bacteria genera associated with the ectomycorrhizal fungi and Bishop pine trees in Point Reyes National Seashore to understanding fundamental ecological interactions and energy flows.
Tess Carlson
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During the 2024-2025 INSPIRE program, Tess taught 11th and 12th grade Biology at the Mission Bay Hub in the San Francisco Unified School District.
- Tess’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on the conservation of spike protein regions in viruses to how our immune system recognizes and combats pathogens.
Anjana Amirapu
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During the 2023-2024 INSPIRE program, Anjana taught AP Biology and Science Research at Lowell High School in San Francisco Unified School District.
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Anjana’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on the isotopic uptake in the digestive tract of poison dart frogs to her AP Biology class.
Anu Sarkar
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During the 2023-2024 INSPIRE program, Anu taught AP Biology and 9th grade Biology, Honors Biology, and AP Research at Leland High School in San Jose Unified School District.
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Anu’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on the lac operon pathway in E. coli to her AP Biology class.
Chris Groth
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During the 2023-2024 INSPIRE program, Chris taught Biology at Oakland International High in Oakland Unified School District.
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Chris’s Education Transfer Plan connects his research on the location of local brine fly populations to his multilingual language Biology class.
Enasia McElvaine
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During the 2023-2024 INSPIRE program, Enasia taught Chemistry and AP Chemistry at McClymonds High in Oakland Unified School District.
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Enasia’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on the creation of synthetic neurotoxins to her AP Chemistry class.
Kate Haber
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During the 2023-2024 INSPIRE program, Kate taught AP Biology and Anatomy and Physiology at Berkeley High in Berkeley Unified School District.
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Kate’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on fish hybridization to her AP Biology class.
Seema Sharma
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During the 2023-2024 INSPIRE program, Seema taught Biology at Summit Tahoma in the Summit Public School network.
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Seema’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on the impacts of land-use change on vector borne diseases to her Biology class.
Shannon Mueller
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During the 2023-2024 INSPIRE program, Shannon taught AP Biology at Berkeley High in Berkeley Unified School District.
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Shannon’s Education Transfer Plan connects her research on the impacts of drought and herbivory on foliage to her AP Biology class.
Teacher Created Resources
All teachers in the INSPIRE program have generously shared the resources they created during the program. They have shared their Education Transfer Plans (unit plans that bring their research experiences to their curriculum) and their Research Posters (generated from their summer research experience and presented at the B-SURP Symposium).
